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" Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen."
Lauren DeStefano

Meaning of "plausibly" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PLAUSIBLY

ˈplɔːzəblɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLAUSIBLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plausibly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES PLAUSIBLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of plausibly in the English dictionary

The definition of plausibly in the dictionary is in a way that seems reasonable, valid, truthful, etc. Other definition of plausibly is in a way that seems trustworthy or believable.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLAUSIBLY

accusably · excusably · feasibly · fusibly · implausibly · indefeasibly · indivisibly · inexcusably · invisibly · irrecusably · recognizably · sizably · supposably · unaccusably · unappeasably · unplausibly · unrecognisably · unusably · usably · useably

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLAUSIBLY

platyrrhine · platyrrhinian · platysma · plaudit · plaudite · plauditory · Plauen · plausibility · plausible · plausibleness · plausive · plaustral · Plautus · play · play a lone hand · play a part · play along · play ball · play box · play by ear

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLAUSIBLY

accessibly · comprehensibly · impermissibly · impossibly · incomprehensibly · incredibly · inexpressibly · insensibly · irremissibly · irrepressibly · irresponsibly · irreversibly · ostensibly · permissibly · possibly · responsibly · reversibly · risibly · sensibly · tensibly · visibly

Synonyms and antonyms of plausibly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «plausibly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLAUSIBLY

Find out the translation of plausibly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of plausibly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «plausibly» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

振振有词
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

plausiblemente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

plausibly
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अनुग्राह्यतापूर्वक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معقول
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

правдоподобно
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

plausivelmente
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

-এর সম্ভাব্য
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

plausible
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Munasabah
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

plausibel
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

もっともらしく
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

그럴듯
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Plausibly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

plausibly
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பக்கூடிய வகையில்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सुदैवाने
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

akla yatkın
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

plausibilmente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

wiarygodnie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

правдоподібно
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

plauzibil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εύλογα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aannemelijk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

plausibly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

plausibly
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about plausibly

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2 QUOTES WITH «PLAUSIBLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word plausibly.
1
Lauren DeStefano
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
2
Andy Weir
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAUSIBLY»

Discover the use of plausibly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plausibly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
I and Tao: Martin Buber's Encounter with Chuang Tzu
Before 1951, the text reads, "... a sage." 2. The Chinese translates more plausibly as, "... he refuses to alter with them." 3. The Chinese translates more plausibly as, "... he does not shift with things." 4. Here, Buber's rendering of hua is Anderung ...
Jonathan R. Herman, 1996
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Edgar & Ellen Mischief Manual: Plausibly Denying All Pranks ...
Provides readers with an illustrated, fun-filled guide to the art of pranking, complete with sidebars, diagrams, wacky advice, profiles of prankster types, aptitude tests, and more! Original.
Charles Ogden, 2009
3
Exceptional Language Development in Down Syndrome: ...
Four types of sentences varying in plausibility were constructed: (1) plausible and plausibly reversible sentences, (2) implausible but plausibly reversible sentences , (3) plausible but not plausibly reversible sentences, and (4) implausible and ...
Jean A. Rondal, 1995
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Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays
Thus consider again the view that all things (and in particular, individual substances) are connected: it can plausibly be regarded as the analogue in actuality (or at the "level" of actuality) of the view that the concepts exemplified by the ...
Michael Hooker, 1982
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Reason, Faith and History: Philosophical Essays for Paul Helm
Only the hard facts about the past are (plausibly deemed) now necessary. God knew yesterday that it will rain tomorrow is not (plausibly deemed) now necessary.“ 4 There is a complication. Plantinga doesn't say quite what I have said.
Prof Dr Martin Stone, 2013
6
Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict
The ban on baby selling was certainly not enacted with surrogacy in mind, and surrogacy is plausibly different from baby selling. The court was correct to refuse to apply a criminal prohibition in the absence of focused legislative attention on ...
Cass R. Sunstein Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Center on Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe University of Chicago, 1996
7
Constructing the World
involved in the cases above (it does not confer a priori knowledge of the referent), but it can plausibly be regarded as a sort of acquaintance all the same. Here one can suggest that there are two sorts of acquaintance. There is acquaintance ...
David J. Chalmers, 2012
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Language and Time: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach
But the extension from lexical concepts encoding spatial scenes plausibly involves distinct conceptual metaphors. For instance, the lexical concept in (11b) is most likely motivated by the Moving Time metaphor, such that a lexical concept  ...
Vyvyan Evans, 2013
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The Philosophy of Deception
A self-deceptive belief, in other words, must be plausibly true (and, in fact, it might even be true, though it has been formed irrationally), and to be plausibly true it cannot violate perceptually palpable, more or less readily apparent, truths.5 Still,  ...
Clancy W. Martin, 2009
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Sport Media Culture: Global and Local Dimensions
'Plausibly. Live'. Television. Reality. For example, ledin recent years bynew strategiesof American broadcasters, there is lessconcern with broadcasting theOlympic Games live. Since Barcelona, NBC officialshave insisted that people do not ...
ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAUSIBLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term plausibly is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ed Helms Seeks the Vulnerable Side of Rusty Griswold in 'Vacation'
It's a joke that's smarter than it looks. Stone Crandall is set up as a character that would plausibly do that. The genius of Chris's performance is ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Life's big surprises: The Vital Question and Life's Greatest Secret …
... remarkable story, the energetics of the rise of the eukaryotes plausibly account for humankind's greatest preoccupations: sex and death. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
US appeals court rejects apartheid cases against Ford, IBM
"Indeed, plaintiffs do not, and cannot, plausibly allege that by developing hardware and software to collect innocuous population data, IBM's ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
4
Satan has come to Detroit: Try not to worry
Because an image of a peculiar man-goat, whose iconography can't plausibly be traced further back than medieval times, has absolutely ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»
5
The Giant Foam Finger: Sports Hatred
... or other — the Yankees, the Lakers, the Bulls — would finally crumble, preferably but not plausibly to make room for a team from Milwaukee. «WUWM, Jul 15»
6
Oil and energy companies exploring Golden Valley
They take models from other places and compare data they already have to determine if an area could plausibly have oil or gas. In the case of ... «Kdminer, Jul 15»
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Opinion: Kim Jong Un more worrying than Putin
... not yet tested it with a re-entry vehicle -- a critical step necessary to demonstrating an ICBM capability that could plausibly threaten U.S. cities. «WPTZ The Champlain Valley, Jul 15»
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Cougars to meet the media in Los Angeles
The defensive attendee for WSU will be linebacker Jeremiah Allison, the classic likable do-gooder with good enough stats to plausibly speak ... «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
9
2015 Baseball Hall of Fame induction: Five things to know
No surprise that Pedro gives the Unit some serious competition when it comes to peak, but one can argue quite plausibly that Johnson just ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
10
'Grey's Anatomy' Spoilers For Season 12
... “Sledgehammer,” as Rhimes is known for giving each episode a song title, this one would plausibly be named after the Peter Gabriel tune. «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
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